Strange users listed by repquota

Strange users listed by repquota

[Joaquim Laureano]

Hi,

When I execute the command "repquota -a" I get the listing of quota
values for all the users listed in /etc/passwd plus a few other as listed
below:

#307      --    1156       0       0             67     0     0
#1001     --     804       0       0             61     0     0
#253      --    5580       0       0            782     0     0
#37725    --    2196       0       0             79     0     0
#507      --       0       0       0              1     0     0
#1000     --     136       0       0             11     0     0
#516      --       0       0       0              1     0     0
#6000     --     100       0       0              9     0     0

The number of these strange "characters" is increasing overtime.
Does anyone know what is at work here? 
Thank you.

-- 
Joaquim Laureano 
Email: laureano8@comcast.net

Re: Strange users listed by repquota

[Bostjan Skufca (at) domenca.com]

Hello,

these are quota statistics for UIDs that do not have matching users on your 
system. Their source are mostly the sources of software you compile on your 
machine. 
When you untar the archive i.e. 

tar -xzf program.tar.gz

it restores original uids and gids of the system the archive has been created 
on.

If you want to find these files, issue

find / -nouser


Regards,
Bostjan

On Tuesday 27 of April 2004 12:35, Joaquim Laureano wrote:
> Joaquim Laureano <laureano8@comcast.net> sporoca:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I execute the command "repquota -a" I get the listing of quota
> values for all the users listed in /etc/passwd plus a few other as listed
> below:
>
> #307      --    1156       0       0             67     0     0
> #1001     --     804       0       0             61     0     0
> #253      --    5580       0       0            782     0     0
> #37725    --    2196       0       0             79     0     0
> #507      --       0       0       0              1     0     0
> #1000     --     136       0       0             11     0     0
> #516      --       0       0       0              1     0     0
> #6000     --     100       0       0              9     0     0
>
> The number of these strange "characters" is increasing overtime.
> Does anyone know what is at work here?
> Thank you.